Practice Makes Perfect- Youth Group
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Opening
Opening
2 Peter Facts:
Written by Peter
Probably written in Rome around 65-67 AD
The letter has 3 primary purposes:
Dangers of false teachers
Faith should not remain static
Encourage believers that Jesus was coming again.
Lego analogy-
Have you ever been given a task but not had everything you needed?
What was that like? Were you able to finish the task?
In the same way when we get a task we expect to have everything we need......God, when we believe, gives us everything we need to grow and know him and serve him.
Verse 3
What is one the gifts that He gives us that helps us to do that?
Through his divine power we have it all.
The Holy Spirit helps us out. We can avoid corruption in the world because the Holy Spirit is with us.
Now, do we still have the choice to do the right thing or not? Of course.
But, we also have the ability to avoid it.
Verse 4
He is talking about Jesus giving this to us.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Verses 5-7
And when we have the diving power we should want make changes in our life for the better.
It tells us we should be making every effort.....
faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection and brotherly affection with love.
Verse 8
Who is in any type of competitive activity?
Do you have to practice or rehearse?
Why?
That’s the point beyond what Paul is saying here. You have been blessed with these things. And when your focused and using them, it’s only going to get better but if you don’t it won’t get better.....you’ll probably even lose ground.
Verse 9
What happens if you have been exercising, eating right, lifting weights?
What happens when you stop?
It’s the same for us in our faith. When we stop, we lose it and when we don’’t have it, we are blinded by sin, but also reminded of our past sins and we just start picking up with those sins like we never stopped.
Verse 10-11
Peter makes this last call here for us. He’s encouraging us to stick with it. and reminding, you can’t lose this. Once you are saved, you can’t get unsaved but when we are focused and doing the things he wants, we start seeing those changes and it makes us feel good about what we are doing....it’s reassuring.
This phrase you will never fall or stumble it’s referring to never sinning.
Think of yourself on a mission for something....you are determined to get what ever that is. You may stumble a little, but you are so determined you aren’t gonna fall completely off the path and not get back on it.
God will never change his mind about us. Once we are his, we are his. It’s final, but we do have to respond to the gifting that he gave us.
Pray
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